{"id":322360,"date":"2020-04-16T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322360"},"modified":"2020-04-16T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:17:57","slug":"centre-asks-states-uts-to-implement-strong-containment-plan-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/centre-asks-states-uts-to-implement-strong-containment-plan-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks States\/UTs to implement strong containment plan for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Union Health Ministry has asked all states and Union Territories to utilize the extended lockdown period \u201cto convert the hotspots (red) to orange and in turn green zones\u201d to the maximum extent.\u00a0 The new instructions were conveyed to all chief secretaries of States and Union Territories by Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, vide a Demi Official letter No. Z-21020\/16\/2020\/PH on April 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her letter she has observed that more than half of all districts are currently reporting COVID-19 cases and they will all be brought under active containment strategy to break the chain of viral transmission. All the 712 districts into red zone or hotspot districts, non-hot spot districts and green districts currently not reporting any COVID case.<\/span><\/p>\n

A red \u2018hotspot\u2019 district will be designated as orange zone if no fresh case of Covid-19 is reported there for 14 straight days and will become a green zone if no case is reported in 28 days.\u00a0There are 170 hotspot districts\u00a0where active lockdown and containment will be practiced by house to house surveys. No non-essential services will be allowed in these districts.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the latest government data, shared with all states, there are 170 \u2018hotspot\u2019 red zone districts as on date, with 123 districts faced with \u2018large outbreaks\u2019\u2019 and 47 with clusters. Besides, there are 207 \u2018non-hotspot\u2019 orange zone districts.\u00a0 In orange zone districts, states need to ensure that containment measures are taken to ensure that the pandemic is contained.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 207 non-hotspot districts which are reporting few cases but have the potential to convert into hotspots, the Centre has asked states to start cluster containment work through active contact tracing and checking of people for pneumonia or influenza like illness.\u00a0As per the communication, districts and cities will be classified as hotspot if they are among \u201chighest case load districts contributing to more than 80% of cases in India, or highest case load districts contributing to more than 80% of cases for each state in India, or districts with doubling rate in less than four days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even in green districts the Centre has asked states to look for people with respiratory distress and test them.\u00a0\u00a0The Centre has also asked states to identify hotspots based on \u201cdoubling rate of confirmed cases\u201d and specified that the exercise of identification of hotspots has to be done on weekly basis or earlier.\u00a0The States in green zones have been asked to undertake \u201ceffective surveillance of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and influenza-like illness (ILI) cases\u201d besides ensuring dedicated Covid-19 hospitals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The communication said the period of extended national-level lockdown \u201cshould be utilised effectively and there should be concerted effort for implementing containment measures in a focused manner\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Union Health Ministry has asked all states and Union Territories to utilize the extended lockdown period \u201cto convert the hotspots (red) to orange and in turn green zones\u201d to the maximum extent.\u00a0 The new instructions were conveyed to all chief secretaries of States and Union Territories by Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Department of Health and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":320692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322362,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322360\/revisions\/322362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}